Numbers 25:1

Holman Christian Standard Bible

While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:7

He also tore down the houses of the male cult prostitutes that were in the Lord’s temple, in which the women were weaving tapestries for Asherah.

Psalm 106:28

They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

Exodus 22:19

“Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal must be put to death.

Exodus 34:15

“Do not make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land, or else when they prostitute themselves with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

Jeremiah 40:11

When all the Judeans in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and in all the other lands also heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, over them,

Ezekiel 20:21

“But the children rebelled against Me. They did not follow My statutes or carefully keep My ordinances — the person who does them will live by them. They also profaned My Sabbaths. So I considered pouring out My wrath on them and exhausting My anger against them in the wilderness.

Hosea 9:10

I discovered Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, consecrated themselves to Shame, and became detestable, like the thing they loved.

Micah 6:5

My people, remember what Balak king of Moab proposed, what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and what happened from the Acacia Grove to Gilgal so that you may acknowledge the Lord’s righteous acts.

Numbers 25:17

“Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.

Numbers 31:2

“Execute vengeance for the Israelites against the Midianites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”

Numbers 33:49

They camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth to the Acacia Meadow on the plains of Moab.

Numbers 7:15

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

1 Corinthians 10:8

Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day 23,000 people fell dead.

Deuteronomy 3:29

So we stayed in the valley facing Beth-peor.

Deuteronomy 32:38

Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let it be a shelter for you.

Deuteronomy 4:3

Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.

Joshua 2:1

Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men as spies from the Acacia Grove, saying, “Go and scout the land, especially Jericho.” So they left, and they came to the house of a woman, a prostitute named Rahab, and stayed there.

Joshua 22:17

Wasn’t the sin of Peor, which brought a plague on the Lord’s community, enough for us, so that we have not cleansed ourselves from it even to this day,

Joshua 3:1

Joshua started early the next morning and left the Acacia Grove with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan and stayed there before crossing.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.